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Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society - Albert Einstein, "Why Socialism?" (lemmy.ml)
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Once revolutionaries die, liberals convert them into harmless icons - VI Lenin (lemmy.ml)
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Ursula Le Guin (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36527137

from her 2014 acceptance speech for the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution

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“For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another.” - Ernesto “Che” Guevara (lemmy.ml)
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1965/02/24.htm

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“The fight against racism is inextricably bound up with the struggle against capitalism itself.” - Claudia Jones (Trinidad-born U.S. Communist organizer) (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36686957

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Without reading theory communism is impossible - Lenin (lemmy.ml)
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Che Guevara when asked wether or not he was a Marxist (lemmy.ml)
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko on Nazis (lemmy.ml)
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"Human nature" - Karl Marx (lemmy.ml)
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"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it" - Karl Marx (lemmy.ml)
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"Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives." - Lyudmila Pavlichenko. (lemmy.ml)
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Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with 309 kills. She is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time.

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Democratic socialists are opportunists and traitors of the working class - Lenin (lemmy.ml)
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"Common sense" is just bourgeois ideology (lemmy.ml)
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The way opportunists argue - Lenin (lemmy.ml)
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Donald Trump on the effects of the world dropping the dollar standard (lemmy.ml)
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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/7/30/exorbitant-privilege-can-the-us-dollar-maintain-its-global-dominance

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/dollar-is-king-trump-defends-its-status-as-worlds-dominant-currency-glbs-2752890-2025-07-09

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Douglas Adams (lemmy.ml)
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Lenin on the conditions for revolution (lemmy.ml)
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on State Capitalism (lemmy.ml)
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm

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During a reactionary war, always desire the defeat of the bourgeoisie (lemmy.ml)
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Obama and Kamala, I am looking intensely at you on this one (lemmy.ml)
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"Common sense" is pretty much just bourgeois ideology (lemmy.ml)
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Lenin on bourgeois-friendly reformists (lemmy.ml)
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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jul/14.htm

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A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. -Fidel Castro Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution, 1961 (lemmy.ml)
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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization (lemmy.ml)
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“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” — said by Nicholas Klein, U.S. labor activist (lemmy.ml)
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